OPENINGS: ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (20th) squeezed everything it could out of its opening 2-holiday week, with paid preview screenings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights (totaling $2.4M) preceding its official Thursday...

OPENINGS: It’s possible to make money on Super Bowl weekend, as hits like Dear John ($30.5M), Taken ($24.7M) and Chronicle ($22M) have shown. But MISS BALA (Columbia/Sony) didn’t have what it takes, with ...

OPENINGS: There were no new wide releases for New Year’s weekend, but a pair of lackluster films arrived for Christmas Day. VICE (Annapurna) has $17.7M to date, $7.8M of it from this weekend, but it’s bee...

The holiday box office has turned out to be AQUAMAN (DC/Warners), and then everything else. Preliminary numbers at Deadline have its 3rd Friday at $16.8M, up 15% from Thursday and down 40% from last Friday, for a likel...

OPENINGS: The $35.4M weekend result for SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Sony Animation/Columbia/Sony) was in keeping with its Friday projections, and the expectation is that it will thrive through the holidays. It...

OPENINGS: There were no new wide openings on this pre-holiday season weekend in the US, but things were busier overseas. AQUAMAN (DC/Warners), which won’t arrive in the US until December 21, launched in China w...

The lack of any new wide openings and the arrival of the year’s Golden Globe nominations are making for a strong holdover weekend, although for some titles more than others. According to preliminary numbers at D...

OPENINGS: At $6.5M, THE POSSESSION OF HANNAH GRACE (Screen Gems/Sony) performed adequately for a low-budget horror item placed in one of the lower-grossing weekends of the year. Possession also earned $4.1M in 17 int...

OPENINGS: RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (Disney) was somewhat frontloaded, with a 44% drop on Day 2, so it didn’t challenge Frozen‘s $93.6M record for the biggest 5-day Thanksgiving opening. But Disney has no...

OPENINGS: FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD (Warners) opened at $62.2M in the US, down 16% from the first Beasts. In addition, it was more front-loaded, with a 16% Saturday drop compared to 12%. Exit poll...

OPENINGS: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (Regency/20th) is claiming a round-number $50M weekend, but even if that drifts down a bit in final numbers, it’s still a huge win. The box office was steady from Friday to Saturday,...

OPENINGS: HALLOWEEN (Blumhouse/Miramax/Universal) was front-loaded, with a Saturday drop that hit 18%, but that only prevented it from setting records, not from being a giant hit at $77.5M for the weekend. That insta...